Portsmouth woman charged with heroin, cocaine possession

PORTSMOUTH — A Gosling Meadows mother is incarcerated on cash bail for charges alleging her possession of heroin and leaving the scene of a crash, while unlicensed to drive.

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By Elizabeth Dinan

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By Elizabeth Dinan

Posted Feb. 14, 2014 at 2:00 PM

By Elizabeth Dinan

Posted Feb. 14, 2014 at 2:00 PM

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PORTSMOUTH — A Gosling Meadows mother is incarcerated on cash bail for charges alleging her possession of heroin and leaving the scene of a crash, while unlicensed to drive.

Held on $1,200 cash and $5,000 personal recognizance bail is Shanna Hogan, 34, of 6 Weald Road, for misdemeanor counts of conduct after an accident and driving after suspension, as well as a felony count of drug possession.

According to an affidavit by officer Christopher Kiberd, on Jan. 4, Hogan crashed into a car on Woodbury Avenue and, according to witnesses, “pleaded” with the driver of the other car not to call police. She gave the other driver her name before driving away, while the other driver noted Hogan's license plate number, the affidavit states.

Kiberd noted there was “significant” damage to the car that remained on scene.

Witnesses at the Heath's Mobil station told police they recognized the hit-and-run driver as Hogan, a regular customer at the gas station store, Kiberd's report states. The officer reported he later went to Hogan's address and noted her car had damage consistent with the hit-and-run crash.

When police went to arrest her on a warrant five days later, said Sgt. David Keaveny, Hogan went out a back door, but was caught and found to be in possession of heroin.

Her heroin arrest came during the same month when, police said, three people overdosed on heroin in Portsmouth, one of them fatally. Thirteen days after Hogan's heroin arrest, Simone “Sammy” Sclafani was found dead in Portsmouth from an apparent heroin overdose which, police say, remains under investigation.

Police have not made a connection between Hogan and those overdoses.

Other heroin overdoses were reported last month in Salem and Seabrook. Police in other New England states reported heroin laced with the pain killer fentanyl, while local police say they're still waiting for toxicology reports.

A motion filed with the Portsmouth Circuit Court, by police prosecutor David Colby, states Hogan was arrested again on Jan. 20 for charges alleging breach of bail conditions, disobeying an officer and possession of cocaine. Those charges are being prosecuted by Newington police, court records state.

Hogan is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday and Colby is expected to petition the court to revoke her bail for her alleged failure to adhere to court orders mandating her good behavior for her arrest on charges of simple assault and breach of bail.

Hogan reported to the court that she's a self-employed mother of three.

Last year, she was convicted after a trial for a misdemeanor charge of facilitating an underage party. Police said teenagers were taken into custody at her residence where vodka, beer, Jell-O shots, marijuana pipes, marijuana and vomit were found on scene. Keaveny said she was fined $600, with half suspended conditional upon her good behavior for a year.